News Feed/Twitter

As I mentioned before, I’ve been looking for a way to do a news feed for awhile. As I wrote back then:

I read a lot of articles on Richard Stark, Parker, and Donald Westlake. I’ve got all kinds of e-mail alerts set in all sorts of places.

Some of these I share with you and some I don’t. I (try to) sacrifice frequency for quality. Let’s take Darwyn Cooke, for example. Like everyone else on book tour, he tends to say the same things over and over again in interviews, and he does a lot of interviews. As a result, I’ve only linked to a handful of them, the decision based on whether or not I thought they provided fresh insight or new information.

But some of you out there may not want me as a filter, at least not to the extent that I’m serving as a filter.

So, I’ve been trying to come up with a way to provide you with more information without pushing marginal stuff on the blog.

After experimenting with a few tools, I’ve settled on Twitter. It’s not exactly what I was looking for, but it will do.

I’ll be using Twitter to feed links to the sidebar. The links will generally be Stark/Westlake/Parker stuff that you might find worth a read but are probably not worth a whole blog entry. (I’ll also throw in some other crime fiction-related stuff, just as I do on the blog.)

I'll have more at the site when I get a chance to write it, but this is sad news. Brian Garfield was not only a hell of a writer, but a really nice guy.
https://t.co/ZtFwM1Q9dB

Ralph Dennis' Hardman series begins coming back in print today from Brash Books. Read about Dennis here, including his previously unpublished novel that "...makes Parker look like a sissy." I haven't read Dennis' work yet, but lots of friends are fans. https://t.co/ItJvWdKeje